Re: First post of 2008? (Look! Brand new subject! Reassuringly off-topic!)

[Duck <duck@...>]

> I am afraid I did not make myself clear. I was not
> asking who will produce the first post of 2008, but
> who will enter 2008 first. (That is, who lives more
> to the east...)

Though the two things may be related :-)

Easterliness alone isn't enough, however. For example, Brisbane is 153E, 
but is one hour behind Sydney (like many tropical places, Queensland 
doesn't have daylight savings), which is 151E.

> From memory, Kiribati has the most Easterly timezone, currently UTC+14 
(this is so that their westerly isles can share NZ date/time at UTC+13 
whilst keeping their easterly isles on the same calendar day -- they 
used to be split between two days).

One of these eastern isles was renamed Millennium Island in 1999, for 
fairly obvious reasons :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Island

I don't know if there are any I-Kiribati on this list. I seem to recall 
there being some Kiwis...if so, they have the jump on all of us.

PS: This one really IS off topic, and about time too.